Are You Serious? (Lesson 4)

Exploring God’s Judgment

2 Kings 10:11,18-19 & 23- 28 NASB

(11)  So Jehu killed all who remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, and all his great men and his acquaintances and his priests, until he left him without a survivor.

(18)  Then Jehu gathered all the people and said to them, "Ahab served Baal a little; Jehu will serve him much.

(19)  "Now, summon all the prophets of Baal, all his worshipers and all his priests; let no one be missing, for I have a great sacrifice for Baal; whoever is missing shall not live." But Jehu did it in cunning, so that he might destroy the worshipers of Baal.

(23)  Jehu went into the house of Baal with Jehonadab the son of Rechab; and he said to the worshipers of Baal, "Search and see that there is here with you none of the servants of the LORD, but only the worshipers of Baal."

(24)  Then they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings. Now Jehu had stationed for himself eighty men outside, and he had said, "The one who permits any of the men whom I bring into your hands to escape shall give up his life in exchange."

(25)  Then it came about, as soon as he had finished offering the burnt offering, that Jehu said to the guard and to the royal officers, "Go in, kill them; let none come out." And they killed them with the edge of the sword; and the guard and the royal officers threw them out, and went to the inner room of the house of Baal.

(26)  They brought out the sacred pillars of the house of Baal and burned them.

(27)  They also broke down the sacred pillar of Baal and broke down the house of Baal, and made it a latrine to this day.

(28)  Thus Jehu eradicated Baal out of Israel.

God’s judgment is comprehensive and complete

Here we see Jehu has totally removed Ahab and all his descendants from the face of the earth.  God had pronounced judgment on Ahab and through Jehu’s obedience, God’s judgement was thorough and extensive.  However, Jehu was not finished with annihilating Ahab and his family.   

He called for all the servants and prophets of Baal to gather under the pretense that he was going to serve Baal.  When he had them all in one place, he ordered his guards to kill them all. 

I wonder how many times these people saw the hand of God and failed to worship Him.  They would worship their false God’s in order to satisfy their own lusts and wants.  The sad thing is that we still have people today doing everything to prove God wrong.  People will not accept Jesus even though the Bible plainly says

1 John 2:23 NASB Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father; the one who confesses the Son has the Father also.

Ahab did this and God’s judgement was comprehensive and complete.

Yes I am serious and God is too.